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By JOHN BOWEN ();

September 27, 1964,

, Section Book Review, Page BR54, Column , words

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PHILIP LARKIN is the Librarian of the University of Hull, and he is well-known and widely admired as a poet. In 1943, when he was 21 years old, he began to write this novel. It appeared in 1946. A year later, his second novel, "A Girl in Winter," was published.

September 27, 1964

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